You can do 5x5 characters, but 5x7 looks better and 5x9 if you want lower case. (WxH)

You need at least 5 characters wide to be useable...

If you want better than dot matrix fonts, you are going to need more vertical and horizontal pixels.

Mine was 8x30 and I never touched the bottom row... It was also a lot more work than I expected.

If you want to map video to it, you need to plan 4x3 increments or the video will be stretched to fit...

In LSP, you can drop a video effect on a layer. You just define the layer to include the matrix and then make your video. I forget the parameters that I used last year for the video, but I'm hoping a new version of LSP will be more forgiving this year... I could only drop about 30 seconds at a time and topped out at about 7 videos...

I do video for my church and as a hobby, so I have access to the full version of adobe premiere. You should be able to accomplish the same thing with any video program that allows creation of moving titles. I just made 4 bars of each color. One horizontal, one vertical, one 45 degrees to the right and one 45 degrees to the left. Loaded them into a title and moved it from left to right or right to left except for the horizontal, which I moved up and down.

. . . In LSP, you can drop a video effect on a layer. You just define the layer to include the matrix and then make your video. I forget the parameters that I used last year for the video, but I'm hoping a new version of LSP will be more forgiving this year... I could only drop about 30 seconds at a time and topped out at about 7 videos...

RM . . . .

Does nutcracker have the ability to program this any easier?

Since I am asking, another thread in the LEDTriks forum shows one made of 8 flexible strips cut in half for a 16 node x 60 node matrix. Given the option, would you use more rows knowing that the strips are only 30 nodes wide?